While the media blares daily Trump news to exclusion of mostly everything else?
Republicans quietly go on their way getting what THEY have wanted since Barack Obama was elected…They are thankful for Trump running interference for them…
More Defense spending, A Tax cut, Cut in government Rules and Regulations, Trimming Obamacare, Crack down on immigration illegal and Legal, appointment of conservative judges to the Federal bench and many more things…
Do you wonder why Republicans can look the other way at a President that stole their party?
The answer is right there in the open…
This will continue for at least the next few months until the House moves back into Democratic hands and the efforts of the Right are slowed…Not stopped…
The dueling images of a president on the edge and a conservative Congress soldiering forward explain succinctly why almost all elected Republicans here have quietly supported Mr. Trump through his travails — or at least not chastised him too loudly. The payoffs for what Senator Jeff Flake, Republican of Arizona, called the party’s “Faustian bargain” have been rich and long awaited: deep cuts in corporate and personal tax rates, confirmation of a wave of conservative judges for the lower courts, and soon an ideological shift in the highest court of the land.
“Process and personality is what we are talking about — how they do things, how dysfunctional it is and how off the rails he can be,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, conceding that Mr. Trump was “a handful.” But, he said, “what I am talking about is results.”
The president has proved largely uninterested in congressional pointers anyway. “A number of us have given the president some friendly advice, like on the Twitter account and the like,” said Senator John Cornyn of Texas, the No. 2 Republican, adding, “We have tried to give him advice in that area, and he rejected it.”
So with additional policy victories in reach and Mr. Trump’s popularity among Republicans still sky high, many in the party have quietly elected to put their heads down and get done what they can, at least until November’s midterm elections.
Voters “have some fears and concerns, and we are trying to address all those issues,” Representative Steve Stivers of Ohio, chairman of the House Republican campaign arm, acknowledged at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast with reporters on Friday. But, he said, neither the dysfunction manifested by the anonymous essay nor Mr. Woodward’s book would make much of an impact on voters.
“I know that it becomes this tempest in Washington, but the rest of the country really is different, and they’re not talking about the same stuff that you might see on cable news,” he said….
This post gives what I think is the main reason the Republican support is there for Trump,,..
Who is surprised by this?
Hell thats been the point of several of us here from the beginning of this mess.Trump is a Republican ,boosting well known Republican priorities as illustrated above,whioe “others” (cough cough) have sent their time engaging in irrelevant tripe about his being an “adopted Republican, not “really a Republican,not “liked” by other Republicans etc etc
I mean who could really “like” an arrogant, egotistical jackass like him?And what does that irrelevancy have to do with anything?
Mike Pence really came across as pathetic on Fox News Sunday.
The one thing that is clear is that this op-ed has personally angered and unhinged Trump, The reaction of the people sent out to speak for him and make accusations of criminal acts and treason speaks for itself.
Has John Kelly formally issued a statement saying it didn’t come from him?
Just about EVERYBODY denies being the writer….
Suspicion runs wild within the White House…
Pence says he’d take a lie detector test
He seems to be a prime suspect…
The writer was definitely not Pence
I agree with Seth Abrahamson.
This whole search for the letter writer is Stupid.
All the letter writer did is essentially confirm the theme of Woodward’s book.
Indeed, this whole thing has been nothing but a diversion what with calls by Trump and his minions for an “investigation..” What are you “investigating?”A letter?
Yep…
Stupid is the word for this as well as so much else about this reality show of a Presidency.
Disgusting.
Agreed Jack…
And Trump DOES tend to the word “treason’ around quite freely to describe anyone that says anything about him he doesn’t like….